Attachment of electrical fixtures to outlet-boxes.



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HENRY R. GILSON, OF BADEN, AND JAMES lVI. G. FULLMAN, 0F SEi/VICKLEY,`PEN'J VANIA, -ASSIGNORS T0 NATIONAL METAL MOLDING COMPANY, OF PITTSB.

PENNSYLVANIA., A CORPORATION 0F PENNSYLVANIA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented fct. 5,

.application filed August 31, 1914. Serial No. $59,436.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known 'that We, HENRY R. GILsoN, residing at Baden, in the county of Beaver, andJAMns M. G. FULLMAN, residing at Se Wickley, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, citizens of the United States, have invented or discovered certain new and useful Improvements in ,Attachments of Electrical Fixtures to Out ferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated. p

Figure l is an elevation of an outlet box with a lamp socket structure secured thereto,

i' the loutlet box being placed Within a Wall and connectedto inner` Wall conduits; Fig. 2

. a bottom plan view of the socket base plate,

showing its connection to the outlet box; and Fig. 3 a sectional view taken on the line III-fIII, Fig. 2. l

In the several figures like numerals are 'used to designate like parts.

The outlet box 1 maybe of any desired construction, that shown herein being cylindrical, and provided adjacent to its open face With inwardly-extending supports in 'the form of oppositely disposed lugs 2 having holes 3. As is usual, the outlet box is placed Within the surface of a Wall or oeil-- ing indicated at 4, and has inner Wall electrical conductor conduits 2O attached to it..

lfixtures of this type it will be understood ,21,- against which e head. of .said 3scre-y a that `it may be desirable to have the metal molding extend in various angular. directions With relation to the center of the outlet box and electrical fixture, and different than a fixed position of the fixture would permit. Our invention therefore contcmplatesa liriu and edicient connection of electrical fixtures to outlet boxes, such connection ypermitting of an adjustment of the fixture to any desired angular position. i

Various types of electrical fixtures may, 1n the practice of our invention, be attached to outlet boxes. The fixture shown herein is a lamp socket, and in its preferred form consists of a base plate 5, a porcelain block G, and a metal cap 7. The base plate has a central transversely extending rib S pro vided With a key-hole slot 9, and at each si de of the rib there is a passageway l0 through which electrical lconductors lleading from the outlet box may pass. Also, the base plate is provided with peripheral upturned lugs ll which form closures for conduit receiving openings in the porcelain block, as

T seen best 1n big. l. In the present illustra-' tive embodiment of my invention one of such lugs has been removed and a metal molding conduit l2 secured. to the plate 5, as seen in Fig. 2. The porcelain block (i is provided, in a. Well known manner, with a socket 13, andis secured to the plate 5 by screws 14, the cap 7 being partially broken away in Fig. l to show such socket and one of such screws.

In eecting a rigid yet, adjustable attaclil ment of the fixture to the outlet box, We pro- -vide a. Spanner l5, which, "for structural purposes, is preferably channel-shaped in cross-section, and which preferably has a tongue 16 at each end thereof adapted` te engage' a hole 3 of the lugs 2. The plate 5 is secured to the spanner by means cf a clamping member preferably in the form of a screw 17, which engages a centrallydisposed screwthreaded hole 18 in the spanner.` By using such a connection; it will be seen that, before tightening the screw the plate 5 may be adjusted to any desired 'osition, thus placing its conduit-attaching holes to point in any d .etica order to keep the screw i7 cent if plate 5 and attlie end of the slot 9, the edge of the slotis provided with upturned in s nbuts in en there is e. tenfleney el the sevenA to move toward the enlarge@ portien et the slot.

To install the eleetiienl lixtilre, 'lie span ner, with the Se few l?" plwtly inserted in the hole 18. i y be placed with its tongues i6 extenclin j into the holes 3 of the lugs 2. The plate i3 may then ne placed in its intendecl positlen.) the elle? l pertinn of tlxe key hele s eli 9 being met `rl eetl over the lie" et Screw l?, unl the sereni then enell. "llie loloe isn i be attached to plate il ln; n lll. en the inetnl een te Snel; bloen by nn'enf's; ll/z le elnlni ne ons' invention:

l. ln an electrical. installation, the eo1nninntion 01"' un outlet nox pifevidell nnjn te its open tace with inwardly extendinf ,lugs having holes therein. n Spanner l'nwin tengrnes at its pposite ends enenging the holes et snnl lugs, und ineens". adjustnlwly Attaching :in eleel'z'ienl libxml-e te mid spannen'.

2. ln an electrical inslnllntiol'l, tlie eemlnnation ot :in outlet loon', inwardly es# ll supporte .n'ljneent te the nen t'lnre oi @dal box, n. Spanner engaging' sn'nl supports :it cppoeile ende, nn eleetrieal lxtni'e. und. :i single :flmnping ineinlie enge l L' ture :nul nl epnnnernf, eentrnl point.

, w. the Open face et ng. lng sind supporte :it its olf/pos e en( en electrical xture eoingnfisnigi in. t :1 buse plate hzwmg :L

transversely e. 'nding rib with a passageway nl' the eide thereoft and means for ati will. plate through the rib thereof ejkmnnei.

:ni eleetiieel i'istnllation, the oom- 1. nl an entlet nox provided adjacent @me with, enpositely disposed. in-

` wing holes therein7 tongues at its opposite the holes of said lugs and lt-:wing n eenlml 1l-ren' threaded hole, an eleutricnl tme einnpiflsing in pmt n. base plate lnivnig; :i ti'nnsversely extending rib will! n cent will); diene/sell key-hole slot7 :1nd

enfle engaging n yew extending Vengll said slet and @winning the .www tlneznled hole oi snnl whex-eo'li' We have hereunto GXLSON. G. FULLMAN.

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